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Mel Karmazin is not one for modesty. During a keynote at the Media & Money Conference Tuesday, Karmazin - Sirius XM Radio CEO - said the company is clearly soon to be the most successful company in the audio entertainment industry…
FT Group, publisher of the Financial Times, saw total revenue leap 11% for the first nine months of 2008. Circulation and ad revenue grew, as did revenue from interactive data.
Ad revenue was up 1% over the first nine months…
Location-based services that allow marketers to connect with consumers wherever they are have long been considered the ideal in advertising. eMarketer is predicting that the opportunity will grow significantly in coming years, with the number of consumers using such services…
Comedy Central is building on the success of its two wildly popular fake-news programs, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, adding a show called Chocolate News.
The new show will star David Alan Grier as the pompous host of…
Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and – for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index (see table), writes MarketingCharts.
Permission-based email…
Custom publications are being increasingly produced by specialty editors and designers (73%) rather than by those in communications roles, according to a study conducted by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC) in cooperation with Publications Management, writes MarketingCharts.
The survey, “Staffing and Compensation:…
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
It may come as no surprise that magazine ad revenue has continued to fall over the first three quarters of the year. Total revenue was down 5% and pages were down 9.5%, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. But what…
In yet another casualty of the current financial market crisis, the potential $1 billion deal between JCDecaux and News Corp. has foundered. Had it happened, the new group would have surpassed Clear Channel to form the world’s largest outdoor advertising company.…
More than two-thirds of men age 18-34 say they cannot live without the internet vs. television, but 74% would rather have sex than surf the web, according to (pdf) a study from Break Media, conducted by Hall and Partners, MarketingCharts reports.…
South Korea again tops the list of countries with the greatest levels of high broadband (greater than 5 Mbps) connectivity in Q2, while Delaware leads U.S. states, according to the latest “State of the Internet” report from Akamai, writes MarketingCharts.
The report,…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
African Americans and Spanish-dominant Hispanics have the highest radio listening levels of all demographic groups, and continue to propel urban and Spanish-language stations to the top in major US markets, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco, according to Arbitron’s…
Mothers of school-age children want customized parenting information that will help them deal with the complex parenting issues they face each day, but 69 percent say today’s parenting magazines are not relevant to their children (see chart), according to research conducted…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Magazine publishers face a disheartening array of challenges in the coming year - that has been the consensus so far of executives at the American Magazine Conference taking place this week in San Francisco.
The current financial crisis is certain…
Arbitron has released an announcement confirming the fact that it has gone live with the PPM in eight markets and reminding subscribers that the data should now be used as currency in those markets.
The September 2008 PPM ratings are “actionable…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Google’s long-anticipated AdSense for Games has finally gone into beta.
Casual games publishers can display video, image and text ads in their online offerings. They can also define placements “such as interstitial frames before a game, after a level change,…
Marketers that want to influence consumer behavior may do well to reconsider the amount of spend they’re putting into print advertising.
According to a new study of magazine advertising ROI by Marketing Evolution, magazines are more cost-effective than TV and…
Fancy the song in a YouTube video? Click an e-commerce ad to buy it on iTunes or Amazon.
The spiffy new retail links enable YouTube users to identify songs in a video, then download it from either of the two…
GM is restructuring its $2 billion account with Publicis’ Starcom MediaVest Group in an effort to streamline costs and reduce expenses.
GM has also pulled planning and buying chores for GM’s local dealers; those duties will go to Martin Retail…
